The eldest prince of the Valhades dynasty, self-exiled to the human lands for years with little more than his books, his companion Cecil and an obsession he has yet to outgrow. Coldly brilliant, quietly devoted, and constitutionally allergic to crowds. He left Fyrgen to escape a fate he did not choose. He is coming back to face one he cannot avoid.
The youngest Valhades heir, and arguably the most radiant person in any room she enters. Disarmingly warm, effortlessly charismatic, and possessed of a foul mouth she reserves exclusively for family. She has spent years building a life far from the palace she grew up in. What drove her there is a story she has only just begun to tell.
Crown Princess of Fyrgen and the eldest of the Valhades siblings. She trains every day for a throne that may eviscerate her, attends every counsel meeting her siblings skip, and carries the weight of a cursed dynasty with the composure of someone who made peace with her fate a long time ago. Whether that peace holds is another matter entirely.
Guided by the light of the twin moons and entirely self-possessed. She arrived at Ivorvale as a child under circumstances nobody speaks of openly, and has since become someone the Valhades royals cannot imagine being without.
High Prince of the autonomous Xerat Mountains and son of the formidable Xerata. On paper he is Fyrgen’s enemy. In practice he is considerably more complicated than that. Dangerously charismatic and difficult to read, he operates by his own rules in a territory that answers to no crown but his own.